[SCA-BMDL] Reminder: Canterbury Tales Bardic Competition

[Edmund LoPresti]

Greetings!  Just a reminder that there will be a bardic competition  
at the Canterbury Tales event on March 31.  It will be a storytelling  
competition, with stories in verse or song as well as prose being  
welcome.  Whatever the form, the tales must be under 10 minutes.  The  
theme is "traveling" (if you can't find a story that quite fits the  
theme, loose interpretations are welcome).  One winner will be chosen  
by whatever method I fancy to choose that day, a second winner will  
be chosen by public acclaim.  Novice bards are welcome, don't be  
scared off by the "competition" aspect.

Listeners also welcome!

Hope to see (and hear) you there!
Edmundo

On Feb 15, 2007, at 2:04 PM, Edmund LoPresti wrote:

> Greetings, bards!  Some advance notice for the bardic competition  
> at the Canterbury Tales event on March 31.
>
> As March passes into April, all have been invited to the  
> Chanticleer Tavern for a day of revelry on the theme of the  
> Canterbury Tales.  Could such a day be complete without a  
> celebration of stories and verse?  To avoid such a lack, a bardic  
> competition will be held.  Tales, in prose, verse, or song, will be  
> welcomed from all.  To paraphrase an earlier host to such a  
> competition:
> "The one of you who proves the best of all,
> That is to say, that telleth in this hall
> Tales of best sentence and most solace
> Directly shall have supper at our cost" (Canterbury Tales, Prologue  
> 798-801)
> That is, the tale most entertaining and with the most profitable  
> moral shall be rewarded with two feast tokens.
> "And whoever will my judgement gainsay
> Shall pay all that we spend by the way." (Prologue 807-808)
> That is, I make the rules and I choose the winner, unless someone  
> wants to buy everyone's supper.  But, lest any complain that my  
> whim be too whimsical, there will also be a populace's choice  
> award, with tokens for voting provided to all who wish them.
> The number of stories each can share will depend on the number of  
> entrants; only one will be required, more will be welcome if time  
> permits.  Further I recommend a virtue praised (though not always  
> practiced) by Chaucer's storytellers: brevity.  Those telling a  
> tale of greater than 10 minutes duration will risk my censure.   
> Finally, those recounting a tale of the ancients are encouraged to  
> share this source; but tales of your own devising or your own  
> adventures are also welcome.
>
> Ciao,
> Edmundo da Monreale
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